Actor John Travolta was in the middle of a business meeting with a
computer software publisher when someone mentioned Flight Simulator II,
a program that puts Walter Mitty pilots into the cockpit of a
single-engine airplane. An amateur aviator who flies a small jet out of
his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking
the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta
was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000
feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee...